Koofers

Koofers, Inc. (www.koofers.com), the college study network, is growing. At the close of Q1 2011 it reported that over 400,000 college students are sharing its digital content, including academic course materials, course and professor ratings, to get better grades. Students are saving more too. Instead of overpaying for books at the campus bookstore, they are adopting  Koofers Textbook Finder to locate the cheapest options online. For the universities ... More...

Koofers, Inc. today announced it acquired the assets of five college media properties to augment its nationwide social learning network. The five properties acquired serve the student communities at Michigan State University, University of Georgia, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Middle Tennessee State University and Drexel University. With these acquisitions, Koofers further solidifies its position as the top social learning platform for college students in the U.S. Terms of the transactio... More...

Koofers , Inc. the social learning company that helps college students study smarter, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 signifies Koofers leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches to technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the mid-Atlantic region. Koofers was specially selected by the AlwaysOn edit... More...

Leading social shopping site LivingSocial, and Koofers, the social learning company that helps college students study smarter, unveiled the first milestone of their partnership to bring Campus Deals to ten universities across the nation. The new program gives participating college students deeply discounted offers on area restaurants, shops, activities and services. Students at Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Cal Berkeley, Penn State, Ohio State, University of Nebraska, University of ... More...

In its pursuit to help college students study smarter, Koofers, Inc. today announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A equity funding. This round includes Revolution LLC, created by AOL co-founder Steve Case, and QED Investors, started by Nigel Morris, and its existing investors, New Atlantic Ventures and Altos Ventures, which previously provided seed funding in 2008. The new capital will be used to scale the company’s presence by expanding product development and customer adopti... More...

Today, Koofers, Inc. announces the launch of its new textbook price comparison tool in the Textbook Center. (See demo). The product provides students with a fast and easy way to find and price their textbooks online. As millions of students head back to school this fall, one of the first things they will do is buy textbooks for their classes. Koofers’ new Textbook Center provides students with an online vehicle to find and price all of their textbooks, saving them time and money. The Textbook Center helps ... More...

Today, Koofers, Inc. (http://www.koofers.com) announced the launch of its newly redesigned website. The new site boasts an intuitive new user interface and new service offerings to help students collaborate and share information with one another across universities. The site launch comes at the beginning of the Fall 2010 semester, as many students head back to school. Koofers has been providing social learning services to college students since 2008 and has grown exponentially in the last two years. This ... More...

Koofers, Inc., a leading social learning company, released data today showing that college students frequently do not use the textbooks required for their classes. Data collected from 76,757 course reviews (completed by students at 357 universities) reveals that 14 percent of the time students never use the textbook for their class at any point during the semester. The college textbook market is estimated to exceed $10 billion annually, so this data suggests that as much as $1.4 billion is being wasted ever... More...